Abstract :De carne Christi 14.30-41 has not been given the attention it deserves by scholars over the last 50 years for at least two reasons. First, the widely used 1956 English edition by Ernest Evans does not accurately convey the meaning of the Latin text of this passage: the 1975 French edition by Jean-Pierre Mahé is better. Secondly, Tertullian offers evidence of Ebionite teaching that Jesus was inhabited by an angel, an understanding that is not congruent with many current scholarly reconstructions of Ebionism. A careful analysis of Tertullian’s passage shows that it represents a supplementary clue to establish the antiquity of such a perception of Jesus.